Gazpacho posted:

I'm not inclined to believe that stallman drinks, i think he just eats garbage

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

here's a lot easier thing to imagine: stallman is a sad man who has spent decades alone in a one-room "apartment" that is also his office, and he drinks in secret at night and pretends no one can smell it on his breath

in everyone else's view, his b.o. is so overpowering no one wishes to speak closely enough to note his breath

abigserve posted:

someone at the table asks sarcastically "oh I'm sorry would you like us to be quieter for you"? softly, he responds "its ok, there's no sound anyway"

well why not posted:

stallmans physique is

a) exactly that of someone who drinks beer multiple times per week. many career alcoholics look like that. thin arms and legs, high firm looking gut, that’s a beer belly friends. the more it looks like they’re doing a hilarious watermelon trick the more likely they are crippled by alcohol problems.
b) the name of my new book

TOOT BOOT posted:

Yeah but his expenditures are presumably near-zero, at the very least he should have a mattress somewhere stuffed with enough to rent an apartment

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